MR Solutions has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the company’s PET imaging technology for use in pre-clinical research.
The company has previously won Queen’s Awards for innovation in 2016 and for export achievement in 2017.
MR Solutions has produced developments such as liquid helium free high field scanners and the introduction of multi-modality scanners incorporating MRI with PET or SPECT and CT with PET or SPECT.
The Queens award was for the PET module which used the latest technology in silicon photomultipliers. This technology improved performance and shrank the size of the PET scanner. MR Solutions’ PET scanner can now be inserted within the bore for simultaneous scanning or clipped on to the front of any of MR Solutions’ pre-clinical MRI or CT scanners for sequential scanning.
Researchers are now able to visualise the combination of MRI for structural and functional tissue characterisation with PET imaging for metabolism and tracking of uniquely labelled cell types or cell receptors and more accurate anatomical localisation of PET findings which allows researchers to view rapidly changing physiological and pathological processes. This is useful in oncology, cardiology, and neurology research.
Michael More-Molyneux, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant presented the award on behalf of The Queen to David Taylor, physicist and chairman, at MR Solutions, with Shahid Azeem, Deputy Lieutenant who read the citation. The award was formally conferred with a Grant of Appointment and presentation of a crystal bowl.
Dr David Taylor of MR Solutions said: “We are really delighted to receive this prestigious award for our innovative technology. The whole drive of our company is to be at the cutting edge of science and to offer researchers the latest proven technology as these scanners will have to last many years. We have a really talented team of scientists and engineers who are constantly pushing the boundaries which will have the effect of both speeding up and improving new treatments for millions of people.”
